Evening all. Another referee did the 3-6pm games so I took the 6-8 pm shift and just finished dinner. Down to 30F heading for 25F tonight, but will warm up some tomorrow. The Amazon packages they were due today have been delayed (wonder it anybody else has heard that story… ), hopefully they’ll arrive in the new week.
swampy, sounds like feasting was the order of the day.
JtC, not many things here I treasure enough to be sad if they break (usually breaking stuff means I say a bad word or ten).
Seanette, glad the headache is under control.
GodBod, hope Sis gets to feeling better. How do you think the exams went?
(well, I hope)
nellie, your eye problems are a source of puzzlement to me, it seems that you’re doing everything right and it’s not helping much. Hope the drops help.
OK, need to watch a little tackleball and do some more reading, tomorrow will be football for most of the day while slothing along. Take care all.
He lives with a couple of old farts and is used to quiet. He reacts to sudden noises much more than the other two.
I am sad, it was a lovely hand turned cream and peach bowl. It did have a flaw running through the stone, which is probably why it shattered the way it did. I’m mad at myself over it, though. I know better than to leave things close to the edges of tables and desks but sometimes I just get stupid.
Mom called it a trifle and Mom is always right! LOL!!! She put it in fancy dessert glasses and topped it with whipped cream. I usually just ate the whipped cream, but Dad loved the stuff and was happy to finish mine for me.
nellie, I am so sorry nothing good has happened with your eyes. I keep trying to be hopeful for you but it’s getting a little hard. /sigh/
I think you guys are right, but it wouldn’t do to openly doubt Mom’s word. She has ways of finding out about that sort of thing.
Hubs gets hiccups all the time and it pisses him off. I can’t remember the last time I had them, but they go away quickly and easily.
I am in a bread and cheese and mead coma now. A lady in the neighborhood bakes breads and such to make extra money. I picked up a couple of loaves of jalapeno and cheese bread while they were still warm and opened my latest cheddar attempt. It is much improved from my last try, it is holding together and tastes pretty good. The mouth feel is slightly off, but it’s melty so melted cheddar on bread with mead for dinner. It was yum.
Perhaps I should explain. None of the dishes or housewares are anything out of the ordinary or are something of great personal value (the dishes are mostly from Wal-Mart and the glassware is from various places).
There are things (which I seldom have out), that I do lace great value on and would me most unhappy if they should be broken.
I probably wouldn’t break my precious things if I wasn’t using them, I know this, but I don’t know it if you know what I mean.
The bowl I broke was one that I bought before I started collecting. It was just a pretty thing that caught my eye at a rock and gem show and I brought it home and put in on my dresser for a stuff holder.
The first bowl, a 3 inch wide, hand tooled wood bowl came from an animal rescue charity event and has spent almost 30 years sitting on one desk or another as a paperclip holder and fiddle thing for when I was on hold. It’s currently sitting in front of me on my desk, dutifully holding paperclips.
I only officially started collecting bowls about 10 years ago because before that people gave me cat related stuff.
At my first desk job, all of the other people had pictures of their families displayed. Single me brought in a picture of my cat. My Secret Santa bought me a plush cat. While I of course said many nice things, I left it on my desk because I really didn’t want to bring it home. That meant I loved it, so next year my Secret Santa bought me more cat stuff, most of which stayed at work. Work friends would give me cat stuff they saw at wherever and knew I wouldn’t have.
When I moved desks or jobs, I just lugged all that stuff around because I really had nothing else to do with it. I thought that was how collections happened, I didn’t realize that someone could make the choice to collect things just because they liked them until I was in my 50’s.
I still have some, but only the pieces that mean something to me.
Jeff Foxworthy had a skit where it was all about his first real job and apartment and the opening joke was remember your first apartment? where you could destroy every piece of furniture and only be out 20 bucks?
that was my mom’s house because 2 out 3 of her kids were barely not jailed juvenile delinquents who imitated the WWF they watched a lot and got into fistfights wot each other once a week …that and mom had a temper herself
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 26 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 56 and N.O.S. for the day. Looks like the wind will calm down today. The wind is what has made the past two days feel a lot colder. The big item on today’s agenda is deheathenization. I have Verger duty. Then it will be back to da cave for sammiches and sloth. Sounds like a good plan to me!
Nettie matter of fact, Holy moly dip does also contain cream cheese. I forgot to say that when I typed the recipe. The cream cheese is melted with the cheeze. I’ll ask about the recipe for the bacon thingys.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then purtification for deheathenization must commence.
Slept without Mel last night, almost thru the night, I did wake around 4 to answer Nature’s call then I read for about an hour, but I fell back to sleep till 7! I’m finally starting to get the hang of this retirement thing! Not that it matters on T-W-T when I have to get up early for the Toddler Tornado.
I rotissed and quartered a chicken for MIL, putting the quarters into individually labeled freezer bags. We’ll take them over today and I’ll clean her carpet. I need to clean my kitchen - the rotisserie is in need of scrubbage, plus there are the accumulated dishes that I ignored yesterday. I’ll get all that done before we go.
Oh, yeah, it’s 27-stoopit-degrees, so winter has returned. Yesterday never got warmer than mid-30s, but the sky has cleared and the sun should get us into the 40s today. Daughter has no school tomorrow and it’s SIL’s regular day off, so the four of them are coming over. The kids will frolic in the basement, and Daughter wants to talk with her dad. I’ll probably end up feeding the freeloaders…
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off today. I shall clean and watch playoff handegg. I shall stay indoors, since it is 29 degrees ferret height(1.7 degrees Centipede, 271 Kelvin) outside
Good morning all. 33F outside, but no rain so there is that. Heading out to Texas Roadhouse in a couple hours for the Sunday Dinner, but nothing much else planned for the day.
It’s currently 43 degrees, with an expected high of 48. It’s supposed to rain all day.
nellie, I’m sorry the vision doesn’t seem to be improving.
I had a thing for bowls for a while, large and small. I’m kind of over collecting things, but I do miss my favorite potato salad bowl. It was a perfect size, not too small and not too big. I could bring it to a potluck and serve large family gatherings with it. Unfortunately, my husband shattered it. He thought it was funny, I did not.
Now, I want stuff gone and find myself getting rid of more and more stuff. I have a “free” table at my office. I took two boxes worth of dinnerware set and set it out. It was gone in two days. I’m glad someone else found a use for it.
I have very few things that I treasure anymore. I keep the stuff the kids made for me and the stuff they gifted me. I keep photographs. That’s pretty much it.
My husband is sick with a cough and sinus thing again. I slept in the guest room, but I was still awake most of the night because of his coughing. I’ll have to ensure we still have some Mucinex in the house and get more today if we need it. That stuff seems to help him a lot.
I need to get to a laundromat today or tomorrow and snag one of the BIG washing machines. I have a couple of special dog blankets for the couch that are pretty heaving. My washing machine became completely unbalanced the last time I tried to wash them at home. I have a front loader, so this is kind of hard to do. I tried to ensure I had balanced loads when I washed them, but I think those blankets were too heavy to do at home.
That’s pretty much the extent of my weekend plans. I might run the roll-suck around a little bit.
I have ~30 min before I need to shower, get dressed, and head out, so of course I’m gonna kill that time here with y’all…
The holiday is tomorrow, but MLK Jr. was born on January 15 so:
I did go buy no-sugar-added (NSA) apple turnovers yesterday. I will eventually stop this new habit of getting them, but for now…yum! I have always preferred the less-sweet version of apple pies and turnovers, and NSA items seem to be more easily available these days. Both a good and a bad thing!
It is cold and windy again today, but at least the sun is out…and, while the wind is noticeable, it isn’t the massive gusts we got yesterday. I might leave the house without a coat today, because I don’t have a winter dress coat yet (parts of my wardrobe still need replacing). My best option would be my '80s brown leather bomber jacket, but I think I’d wind up carrying it way more than wearing it: I don’t like wearing a jacket/coat while I’m driving, there’s garage parking under the building, and I’ll be wearing a sweater and the theater isn’t likely to be cold (I tend to run warm).
(catches breath)
Sorry, I just…don’t bake. Or cook. At all. But thanks!
One of the restaurant chains around here has a great jalapeno and cheese bread…hmm…maybe I should make plans to meet friends there sometime soon.
Another gray, dreary, gloomy weather day on the windswept Great Plains but not that bad a temp (43), just flat skies.
On task to get ready to go to my grandchildren’s for grandma day, by far the bestest day of the week. Art messes will be made, Disney movies will be watched, zillions of books will be read, a tea party might be had, life is good.
That’s all the positivity I can muster, which is an improvement over the past couple of weeks. I’ll pop in during the dull parts of the Disneymovie.
Good morning, everyone. My sister threw up at work last night, so she had to call home.
Moderately okay, I suppose? The grades I do know of are a C and a D respectively, and I’m waiting on one. So, didn’t fail one for once, so that’s a treat!
Well, in the next ten days, only three have a significant chance of rain, and some are being predicted to have visits from that big yellow sky ball, which will be a VERY nice change of pace. SMUD (my power company) reports only 100 customers without power currently, which is lower than it’s been for at least a week, so they’re making headway. Looks like part of the agenda later in the week is organizing those emergency supply bins and stashing them. They are currently taking up a bit of the living room, but until I’m sure we’re done with the atmospheric rivers, I don’t want to have that stuff less than immediately accessible.
), hopefully they’ll arrive in the new week.
When that cat fluffs, he FLUFFS.
I’ll ask about the recipe for the bacon thingys.
